Live Music Thread

#1122

Neal > Ryan on guitar any day.

#1123

Just her
Twice

My dad has seen most everyone on this list
Including mark knopfler and Stevie ray vaughnn

#1124

I feel better now that you confirmed. :+1:t2:

Has your dad seen Prince though?
That was a truly once in a lifetime thing, literally unfortunately.

#1125

Would have loved to see Prince. He played at a tiny club here a few years before he died. I actually had a shot at tickets but would need to sell an organ.

#1126

although prince is awesomely talentedā€¦heā€™s not for usā€¦music wise.

#1127

Today I learned that Balv has something against manlets.

#1128

princeā€™s music never ā€œspokeā€ to me. sonically or lyrically.

#1129

Same here, although this is absolutely brilliant:

#1130

Because I was never a Prince fan I was ridiculed by some of my music-loving coworkers. To me that stuff was just dance music and I could never really take it seriously - I know, it is a fault of mine.

#1131

Musicology is an excellent Prince album. Itā€™s a tribute to old school funk and soul. It kicks much ass.

And I know Iā€™m alone in saying this but he overplayed that solo.

#1132

Next you are going to tell us Prince was a show-off!

:wink:

#1133

I live in Minnesota so you are only permitted to have undying admiration for Prince. I keep my mouth shut about it in real life, but here on the internet I donā€™t mind telling you he was a misogynistic asshole with an inferiority complex. Massively overrated. For my money I prefer Warren Zevon as a musical genius, transposing Spice Girls songs for 16 piece orchestras. Of course he was a misogynistic asshole too, but at least he was funny. Prince was just pretentious.

#1134

I agree. His songwriting is at odds with his riff riff wankery, which is more like Yngwie Malmsteen than any soul or funk player. That ā€˜diddle diddle diddleā€™ crap where someone just does repeated pull-offs or hammer-ons is tedious as shit, at least for me.

If I enjoy anything, itā€™s his songs, not his guitar playing.

#1135

Not to speak of lyrical genius. Finishing Touches is the perfect breakup song.

#1136

Yes, some of his songs are really good.

Hereā€™s one of my favorites:

#1137

Which goes well with

#1138

Is this that thing British people call irony? Raspberry Beret was written by Prince and covered by Zevonā€¦

#1139

Wait, Alanis Morissette is British?

#1140

My favorite break up songs of his were the ones about Tule. The French Inhaler and Tuleā€™s Blues.

The death card always makes me think of that verse in Tuleā€™s Blues.

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Oh Tule, now once I was your knight in golden armor, with the sun behind my hair, and my music filled the air with cymbals aligning. Oh, tell me, now canā€™t you see Iā€™m changing like the seasons? My hair has grown dark, and thereā€™s no room left in the ark for the lark with a broken wing.